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NESP TWQ Project 3.2.2 - The IMS 2050 Human Dimensions Project:...
Building on the work of the work of the GBR RIMReP Program Design Group, this project will develop cost-effective indicators and metrics for human dimension outcomes, objectives... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.1.2 - Improving water quality for the Great Barrier Reef...
In pursuit of delivering multiple benefits across multiple ecosystems such as freshwater estuaries, wetlands and reefs, this project will work in partnership with industry,... -
NESP TWQ Project 5.4 - Deriving ecologically relevant targets to meet...
This project derived Ecologically Relevant Targets (ERTs) for sediment loads for the Burdekin basin and provided the seagrass desired state across the Great Barrier Reef (GBR)... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.4 - Developing and refining biological indicators for...
Refinement of biological indicators for condition assessment is an immediate priority as highlighted in a recent review of the GBR Marine Monitoring Program (MMP). Seagrass... -
NESP TWQ Project 2.1.9 - Risk assessing dredging activities, 2016-2018 (AIMS)
The project will use novel analytical techniques/instrumentation to accurately quantify, for the first time, key proximal stressors associated with dredging/spoil disposal (i.e.... -
NESP TWQ Project 2.1.3 - Harnessing the science of social marketing and...
Working in partnership with staff from the Australian Government’s Department of the Environment (DotE), and the Queensland Government’s Departments of Science Information... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.11 - Monitoring and adaptively reducing systemwide...
Australian governments have addressed water quality issues in the Great Barrier Reef (Reef) over the last decade. While much has improved, more is needed. Reef environmental... -
NESP TWQ Project 2.3.4 - Working with Traditional Owners and local citizens...
Traditional Owner rangers and local citizens of the Port Curtis Coral Coast (PCCC) TUMRA will be engaged in developing a Mangrove Management Plan (MMP) that provides a strategic... -
NESP TWQ Project 2.1.5 - What’s really damaging the Reef? Tracing the origin...
Recent research has shown that only a portion of the fine sediment fraction delivered from rivers draining into the Great Barrier Reef Lagoon (GBRL) reaches coral reefs and... -
NESP TWQ Project 4.7 - Indigenous Coral Reef Tourism, 2019-2019 (CQU)
Despite the seemingly abundant opportunities, Indigenous Traditional Owners of the Great Barrier Reef appear to show little interest in participating in the lucrative coral reef... -
NESP TWQ Project 1.9 - The establishment of a future NESP dredging research...
The project will conduct an inclusive facilitated workshop with key researchers and stakeholders to identify the future knowledge needs for improved management of dredging... -
NESP TWQ Project 2.1.1 - Integrated Pest Management of Crown-of-Thorns...
Successful Crown-of-Thorns Starfish (CoTS) management will, for the foreseeable future, depend on manual control at specific sites being effective and efficient. This project... -
NESP TWQ Project 2.3.2 - ‘Human sensors’ for monitoring GBR environmental...
This project will take a novel approach to improving monitoring of environmental and aesthetic conditions in real time by capitalising on information provided through micro-... -
NESP TWQ Project 5.15 - eAtlas extension: Data management for environmental...
The eAtlas is a free public website (http://eatlas.org.au) that brings together environmental research data and knowledge from multiple organizations and research programs into... -
NESP TWQ Project 5.10 - Development and application of automated tools for...
Accurately mapping gullies at high resolution and quantifying their key attributes is the critical first step in the process of prioritising and designing rehabilitation... -
NESP TWQ Project 5.11 - Improved water quality outcomes from on-farm...
The sugar industry occupies 350,000ha in Reef catchments, applies >55,000t of nitrogen (N) fertilizer annually and is a major contributor of dissolved inorganic nitrogen... -
NESP TWQ Project 3.1.1 - Implementation of the Crown of Thorns research...
Crown-of-thorns starfish (COTS) management requires decisions be made about where to invest control effort in order to achieve regional scale objectives, e.g. to modify COTS... -
NESP TWQ Project 1.6 - Multiple and cumulative impacts on the GBR:...
This project will synthesize experimental and field data from NERP, MTSRF and other work for key coral reef organisms and processes to produce a quantitative approach or how... -
NESP TWQ Project 5.1 - Matching the Crown-of-Thorns Starfish Integrated Pest...
The CoTS IPM program designed an ecologically informed control program that integrates knowledge of the spatial and temporal dynamics of CoTS outbreaks and the operations of... -
NESP TWQ Project 2.1.8 - Improved water quality outcomes from on-farm...
The sugar industry occupies 350,000ha in Reef catchments, applied 58,000t of nitrogen (N) fertilizer in 2014 and is a major contributor of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN) to...